The Impact of Nurse-Led Clinics on the Mortality and Morbidity of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract

The available evidence suggests a favorable effect of NLCs on all-cause mortality, rate of major adverse cardiac events, and adherence to medications in patients with CVD.

2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society (ERS)

“…a Assess the persistence (or new onset) and severity of dyspnoea or functional limitation, and also check for possible signs of VTE recurrence, cancer, or bleeding complications of anticoagulation. b The Medical Research Council scale can be used to standardize the evaluation of dyspnoea [160]; alternatively, the World Health Organization functional class can be determined (supplementary table 16 nurse-led care models to deliver follow-up have been shown to be effective after acute coronary syndrome [473], in primary care-based management of chronic diseases [474], and in community based self-management initiatives [475]. A recently published study investigated the care of 42 patients followed at a pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)/CTEPH nurse-led outpatient clinic and showed positive results [476].…”

Nurse‐led primary health care for homeless men: a multimethods descriptive study

“…Clinic services led by nurses have been found to be effective approaches to the management of chronic diseases (Al‐Mallah et al. ), in general practice (Eley et al. ), and specifically for homeless persons (Savage et al.…”

Discharge of Non–Acute Coronary Syndrome Chest Pain Patients From Emergency Care to an Advanced Nurse Practitioner–Led Chest Pain Clinic

“…40,41 This study safely captured the one per cent late evolving ACS and the mortality rate of 0.4% is good compared to previous studies of low risk patient discharged from a chest pain unit (1.7%) 42 and reflects the current evidence that nurse-led clinics have good outcomes for all-cause mortality 43 evidencing patient safety.…”